Charlemagne is a pivotal figure in European history, known for establishing a vast empire in the 700s and influencing the formation of the French monarchy and German dynasties. He famously compelled ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The China National Peking Opera Company’s unmissable UK visit ended with Farewell My Concubine, the true(ish) Qin ...

Corrupt Chinese officials have restored the ancient Chinese tradition of keeping a mistress or two, writes Clifford Coonanin Beijing CONCUBINE YANG was China’s most famous mistress, one of the Four ...

Even on a weekday afternoon, Concubine Lane is bustling with visitors young and old, foreign and local. The quaint and narrow street is as charming as the city it is located in – both steeped in ...

The story of a woman who rose in rank from concubine to empress is as incredible as any fiction – yet Jung Chang’s book on Empress Cixi is a biography whose basis is in fact. Still, one can’t help but ...

Guest host Tom Power talks to Canadian actress Olivia Cheng about her breakout role as Mei Lin in the new Netflix series, Marco Polo. The upcoming 10-episode series dramatizes the famous Italian ...

In the long, complex second installment of her Troy Game quartet (after 2003's Hades' Daughter), Australian author Douglass moves her teeming cast of mythic heroes from ancient Greece to 11th-century ...

NORTH ADAMS — It's a rare opportunity to see a new opera company premiere a new work, let alone for the price of museum admission. At 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary ...